Is TEC pro capable of handling travel tour management?

[Emre Başaran]

Hi,
I am making a website for a travel agency that sells tours as packages. Before I buy the pro version, I have a few question

Can the plugin be used for tour as opposed to events? Although the two seem very similar, they have different requirements as contents

Recurring/reusable packages: a package (say Turkey tour of 7 days) will be offered with different start dates. The difference between these tours will be limited to their start and end dates. everything else will be the same. So the client (agency) should be able to enter the information of the package once, and then add as many of it as he likes.

Can I offer a quota management for each tour?

Is booking with mail order an option?

Can I add optional events to a package for the visitor to choose from. for instance a skiing lesson option for a mountain tour? If selected, the price will be added to the tour price.

[George]

Hey Emre,

Thanks for your interest in the plugin! I’ll address your questions in order:

Can the plugin be used for tour as opposed to events? Although the two seem very similar, they have different requirements as contents

If you make a “Tour” just a normal event, that has a simple start date and end date, then yes it should be fine. If you intend to have many different events, for example, all be one “Tour”, then unfortunately there’s not a way to link them all together at this time without custom coding or something.

Recurring/reusable packages: a package (say Turkey tour of 7 days) will be offered with different start dates. The difference between these tours will be limited to their start and end dates. everything else will be the same. So the client (agency) should be able to enter the information of the package once, and then add as many of it as he likes.

I’m not quite certain what you mean here even with the details you provided – I am sorry about my misunderstanding! In general, if what you mean is that a type of event or a type of series of events can just be duplicated easily, this is not a built-in feature of the plugin.

Can I offer a quota management for each tour?

If you’re selling a ticket for an event, each ticket has a “Stock” feature to indeed track how many tickets are available and how many have been sold and such. Otherwise, there is not quota management.

Is booking with mail order an option?

If you have WooCommerce Tickets, then WooCommerce will be your payment platform. For Mail order, or bank deposit, or any other “custom” sort of payment processing, this is not handled by our plugins but instead is handled by WooCommerce itself. So your best option is to look for mail-related “Payment Gateways” on WooCommerce’s website here → http://www.woothemes.com/product-category/woocommerce-extensions/payment-gateways/

Can I add optional events to a package for the visitor to choose from. for instance a skiing lesson option for a mountain tour? If selected, the price will be added to the tour price.

Something exactly like what you described is not currently possible, but you can sell multiple different ticket types which may suit your needs just as well.

I hope this addresses your questions adequately – let us know what you think!

— George

[Emre Başaran]

George, thank you for your answers. Let me try to clarify my question.

Suppose I am organising a Turkey tour. It is a 7 day event. On my website I create a Turkey tour event with all the details, images, where we go, where we eat, where we stay etc.

Lets say I am organising this tour 6-7 times a year. When a visitor visits the tour page, I want to present him all the different dates that the tour is offered so he can choose from them. Maybe the Turkey tour in August is too early and the one in September is better for him.

Is this a property of repeating events, or will I need to write custom code?

And one more question. Since this is a tour, can I add a map with multiple locations?

Thanks

[George]

Hey Emre,

Thanks for elaborating a bit here! If you create a 7-day event, you can indeed use Events Calendar Pro’s “Recurring Events” feature to then repeat this 7-day event every month, or with another recurring pattern. You should not need to write any custom code for this.

To see some examples and learn a bit more about how, exactly, this would work, definitely check out this article if you haven’t already → https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/pro-recurring-events/

As for mapping a tour – if you have several different events, the can all have their own location on a map. But if you have one 7-day event, then it will only let you have one venue. There isn’t additional functionality to add checkpoints of the tour or anything like that, and you could not build a sort of trail of events on a map without custom code beyond the scope of the forums.

I hope this information helps!

Cheers,
George

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